Darling, give me your absence tonight   Take the shade from the canvas and leave me the white   Let me sink in the silence that echoes inside   And don't bother leaving the light on   ''cause I suddenly feel like a different person   From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion   And I ran my hand o'er a strange inversion   A vacancy that just did not belong   The child is gone      Honey help me out of this mess   I'm a stranger to myself   But don't reach for me, I'm too far away   I don't wanna talk ''cause there's nothing left to say   So my   Darling, give me your absence tonight   Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside   ''cause there's no kind of loving that can make this all right   I'm trying to find a place I belong   And I suddenly feel like a different person   From the roots of my soul come a gentle coercion   And I ran my hand over a strange inversion   As the darkness turns into the dawn   The child is gone   The child is gone